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String Theory: Drawing Inspiration from a Sax Legend and Melodic Minor's Two Coolest Modes

Posted 06/18/2013 at 2:03pm | by Jimmy Brown

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The following content is related to the August 2013 issue of Guitar World. For the full range of interviews, features, tabs and more, pick up the new issue on newsstands now, or in our online store.

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String Theory: The Winding Road, Part 2 — Conclusion of Last Month's Chromatics-Driven Single-Note Etude

Posted 05/21/2013 at 1:08pm | by Jimmy Brown

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The following content is related to the July 2013 issue of Guitar World. For the full range of interviews, features, tabs and more, pick up the new issue on newsstands now, or in our online store.

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String Theory: How to Create a Rolling Melody Using Chord Tones and Passing Notes

Posted 04/23/2013 at 3:12pm | by Jimmy Brown

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The following content is related to the June 2013 issue of Guitar World. For the full range of interviews, features, tabs and more, pick up the new issue on newsstands now, or in our online store.

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String Theory: Using Upper-Structure Voice Leading to Create a Climactic, Jazzy Finale to Last Month's Arpeggio Etude

Posted 04/11/2013 at 8:36am | by Jimmy Brown

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The following content is related to the May 2013 issue of Guitar World. For the full range of interviews, features, tabs and more, pick up the new issue on newsstands now, or in our online store.

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String Theory: How to Compose and Improvise Melodies Over a Chord Progression, Part 2

Posted 01/31/2013 at 12:32pm | by Jimmy Brown

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The following content is related to the March 2013 issue of Guitar World. For the full range of interviews, features, tabs and more, pick up the new issue on newsstands now, or in our online store.

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String Theory: How to Compose and Improvise Melodies Over a Chord Progression

Posted 01/18/2013 at 1:39pm | by Jimmy Brown

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Welcome to String Theory, a new column dedicated to imparting guitar-centric music theory concepts in a practical, useful way that you can readily apply to composing and improvising. Rather than show you a bunch of dry, abstract textbook examples of how chords are built from and live within various scales, I will try to keep things interesting and inspiring by presenting etudes.

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String Theory

String Theory: Drawing Inspiration from a Sax Legend and Melodic Minor's Two Coolest Modes

String Theory: The Winding Road, Part 2 — Conclusion of Last Month's Chromatics-Driven Single-Note Etude

String Theory: How to Create a Rolling Melody Using Chord Tones and Passing Notes

String Theory: Using Upper-Structure Voice Leading to Create a Climactic, Jazzy Finale to Last Month's Arpeggio Etude

String Theory: How to Compose and Improvise Melodies Over a Chord Progression, Part 2

String Theory: How to Compose and Improvise Melodies Over a Chord Progression

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String Theory

String Theory: Drawing Inspiration from a Sax Legend and Melodic Minor's Two Coolest Modes

String Theory: The Winding Road, Part 2 — Conclusion of Last Month's Chromatics-Driven Single-Note Etude

String Theory: How to Create a Rolling Melody Using Chord Tones and Passing Notes

String Theory: Using Upper-Structure Voice Leading to Create a Climactic, Jazzy Finale to Last Month's Arpeggio Etude

String Theory: How to Compose and Improvise Melodies Over a Chord Progression, Part 2

String Theory: How to Compose and Improvise Melodies Over a Chord Progression

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